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Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia's most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.”Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature Originally published in 2020 as Om udregning af rumfang ITara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song & when the rain will begin? Will sheever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation & confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the 18th of November.”)Balle is hypnotic & masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time & foreshadowings: her memories of the past light up inside the text like old-fashioned flash bulbs.The first volume’s gravitational pull—a force inverse to its constriction—has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper & more acute. Give in to the book’s logic (the thrilling shifts, the minute movements, the slant wit, the slowing of time), & its spell is utterly intoxicating.Solvej Balle’s 7-volume novel wrings enthralling & magical new dimensions from time & its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle’s fiction consists of writing that listens... Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia's most important literary award) for being "a masterpiece of its time." A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to...